2020.4荔湾十校九下英语一模联考

2020
英语试卷
一. 听力〔共两节，总分值35 分〕
第一节听力理解(共15 小题；每题2 分, 总分值30 分)
每段播放两遍。

各段后有几个小题，各段播放前小题有5 秒钟的阅题时间。

请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5 秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C 项中，选出最正确选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

听下面一段对话，回答第l~3 三个小题。

1. Where is the woman going?
A. To the airport.
B. To the bus station.
C. To the train station.
2. What does the woman think of the city?
A. Interesting.
B. Clean.
C. Beautiful.
3. What is the man ’s favorite place?
A. The City Square.
B. The Sports Center.
C. The Green Park.
听下面一段对话，回答第4~6 三个小题。

4.What did Bill ’s class do yesterday?
A. Took a field trip.
B. Planted trees.
C. Visited a park.
5. What did Mary do?
A. She held the tree
B. She carried water
C. She put the soil back
6. When did they come back?
A. At about 2 pm.
B. At about 3 pm.
C. At about l pm.
听下面一段独自，回答第7~9 三个小题。

7. What does Jessica do?
A. A teacher.
B. A guide.
C. A tutor.
8. How long will they stay there?
A. Three days.
B. Four days.
C. Five days.
9. Where will they go on the second day?
A. Buckingham Palace and London Zoo.
B. The most famous train station.
C. Tower Bridge and the British Museum.
听下面一段对话，回答第10 ~12 三个小题。

10. What does the boy think of Miss Green ’s class?
A. It’s boring.
B. It’s lively.
C. It’s easy.
11. The girl thinks__________is (are) more important.
A. words
B. grammar
C. writing
12. Miss Green is a (n)__________teacher.
A. Chinese
B. math
C. English
听下面一段独自，回答第13~15 三个小题。

13. Which sport is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Climbing.
B. Skating.
C. Swimming.
14. How often should we exercise according to the passage.?
A. Once a day.
B. Twice a week.
C. Once a week.
15. How long should we exercise each time according to the passage?
A. Half an hour.
B. One hour.
C. 20 minutes.
第二节听取信息(共5 小题；每题1 分，总分值5 分)
听下面一段独自，请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡标号为A~E 的空格中。

听录音前，你将有15 秒钟的阅题时间。

录音播放两遍。

你将有80 秒钟的作答时间。

How to keep a diary
What to write Mainly write about ____A____ .
The little things at the moment will be ___B___ to read about later.
It doesn’t matter if the diary is___ C ___.
How to write Imagine you are writing to a close ___D___ when you write a diary.
Don°t forget your diary when you ___E___ .
【二】语言知识及运用(共两节，总分值20 分)
第一节单项选择(共10 小题；每题1 分，总分值10 分)
从16~25 各题所给的A、B、C 和D 项中，选出可填入空白处的最正确选项，并在答题
卡上将该项涂黑。

16. I really like_________guitar you bought me yesterday, Dad.
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. 不填
l7. He asked her_________the bag because it was too expensive.
A. not to buy
B. to buy not
C. not buying
D. not buy
18. The boy said that he couldn ’t work out the problem by_________.
A. him
B. his
C. he
D. himself
19. Do you know the man_________is talking to Alice ?
A. which
B. who
C. whom
D. whose
20. You_________be hungry after the long walk. Help yourself to some cakes.
A. can’t
B. should
C. need
D. must
21. Mr Li is an excellent teacher._________in our class loves him.
A. Anyone
B. No one
C. Everyone
D. Someone
22. —When is your summer vocation ?
—It begins_________July 15th and I don’t have to go to school until August 31th .
A. on
B. in
C. at
D. by
23. We have two days off a week. We_________at school from Monday to Friday every week.
A. will study
B. study
C. studied
D. are studying
24. Some beautiful flowers_________to her daughter on her last birthday.
A. are given
B. are giving
C. were given
D. were giving
25. —Good luck and have a nice weekend.
—_________. Bye-bye.
A.The same as you
B. You have it too
C. You are too.
D. The same to you.
第二节语法选择(共10 小题；每题1 分，总分值10 分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从26~35 各题所给的A、B、C 和D 项中选出最正确选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Once, a rich and powerful king ordered his three daughters to his palace on his birthday. His first daughter gave him gold, and the second daughter___26___him silver. The king was very pleased___27___these gifts. 〝I have brought you salt,〞said the third daughter. 〝Salt! 〞the king shouted___28___. 〝How dare you treat me like that?___29___good is salt?〞And he drove his
youngest daughter off from his kingdom.
But when the princess (公主) left, all the salt in the kingdom___30___. At first, the king complained___31___his food was tasteless, but then he became very ill from lack of salt. The king realized how foolish he had been___32___sent for his___33___daughter. When she returned to the kingdom, the salt also returned.
〝I’m so sorry,〞said the king. 〝Your gift of salt was more valuable___34___silver and gold, for you can not live___35___salt.〞From that day on, the king got to know something was more important than his riches.
26. A. bring B. brought C. take D. took
27. A. at B. of C. with D. to
28. A. angrily B. angry C. anger D. angrier
29. A. Why B. How C. Where D. What
30. A. disappeared B. disappear C. disappearing D. disappears
31. A. if B. that C. how D. what
32. A. so B. but C. and D. that
33. A. three B. young C. younger D. youngest
34. A. then B. as C. by D. than
35. A. without B. by C. in D. with
【三】完形填空(共10 小题；每题1 分，总分值10 分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~45 各题所给的A、B、C 和D 项中，选出最正确选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Jerry, 30 years old, owned a pizza restaurant. He lived in a flat about one mile north of the restaurant. He usually walked to and from work. When it was___36___, he took the bus.
Jerry loved gangster (匪徒) movies. When a new one came out, he would go to the ___37___and watch it three or four times.___38___it went to video, Jerry would buy one at once. Jerry had a home collection of over 1, 000 gangster videos. Old ones,___39___ones, coloured, black and white, English, Spanish, Japanese —he loved them all. He could tell you the name of the ___40___,the director, the stars, and the story.
Finally, Jerry decided that he would like to own a ___41___, just like the gangsters. ___42___he saved his money for a couple of years. Then he went to a gun store and bought a used
one for 300. The following Saturday morning, he went to the___43___to practise shooting. He was in the club for only ten minutes when he___44___dropped his gun. The gun went off, and the bullet (子弹) went into his right knee.
Jerry now___45___with a walking stick, just like some gangsters.
36. A. sunny B. raining C. cloudy D. wind
37. A. restaurant B. store C. school D. cinema
38. A. But B. So C. Then D. Or
39. A. new B. interesting C. boring D. important
40. A. picture B. book C. song D. movie
41. A. restaurant B. video C. gun D. cinema
42. A. However B. Because C. So D. Though
43. A. video store B. cinema C. pizza restaurant D. gun club
44. A. carelessly B. carefully C. difficultly D. excitedly
45. A. runs B. climbs C. walks D. lies
【四】阅读理解(共20 小题；每题2 分，总分值40 分)
阅读以下短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和D 项中，选出最正确选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

〔A〕
This is a talk by a London taxi driver.
〝I’ve been a taxi driver for nearly ten years. Most London taxi drivers have their own taxis.〞〝It’s a nice job most of the time. You meet a lot of people. I always work at night, because there is too much traffic during the day. I live twenty miles outside London and I go to work at 5: 30 in the afternoon. I usually go home between 2 and 3 in the morning.〞
〝Some very strange things happened late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house, she found that she had lost her key. So I waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in through the window.〞〝I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought I was a thief. Luckily the woman came downstairs. She must have gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog!〞
46. The driver always worked at night because it was easier to __________ .
A. drive
B. make money
C. climb in through the window
D. meet a lot of people
47. The woman climbed in through the window because _________ .
A. she wanted to have a sleep
B. her husband didn ’t open the door for her
C. she didn’t want to pay the driver
D. she couldn ’t find her key
48. The story happened __________ .
A. early in the morning
B. late at night
C. 20 miles outside London
D. near the police station
49. Which of the following is wrong?
A. The driver worked until 2 or 3 in the morning.
B. The police made a mistake.
C. The woman had no money to pay the driver.
D. The woman had forgotten about the driver and the dog.
50. The driver climbed in through the window to _________ .
A. get money from the woman
B. return the dog to the woman
C. see what was happening in the house
D. phone the police
〔B〕
Doctor Seuss (苏斯博士) was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best loved and most successful children ’s book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.
In 1954, Life magazine published a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children ’s books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongl y hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.
In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old could be able to read it. It was a funny story and easy to read. Children loved it.
Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.
In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖). He was honoured for the education and enjoyment his books provided for American children and their parents.
He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide. People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, 〝I do not write for children. I write for people.〞
51. Doctor Seuss learned from the magazine that ___________ .
A. some school children could not read
B. many children ’s books were interesting
C. children wanted to learn to read
D. a writer for children was wanted
52. People like his books because they __________ .
A. are cheap and easy to get
B. were written in different languages
C. are easy and interesting to read
D. were written with invented words
53. He wrote the book The Cat in the Hat at the age of ________ .
A. 50
B. 53
C. 56
D. 87
54. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage ?
A. Doctor Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham with over 230 words.
B. Doctor Seuss wrote books only for children in the United States.
C. The Cat in the Hat was written only for six-year-old children.
D. His books provided education and enjoyment for Americans.
55. From the text we know that Doctor Seuss _________ .
A. won a Pulitzer Prize soon after his death
B. sold millions of his books himself worldwide
C. changed American children ’s way of reading
D. wrote the largest number of books in the world
〔C〕
Most people want to be happy, but few know how to find happiness. Money and success alone do not bring lasting happiness. Aristotle, a Greek thinker, said, 〝Happiness depends upon ourselves.〞In other words, we make our own happiness. Here are a few suggestions to help you be happier.
The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. Too often, we spend so much time thinking about the future —for example, getting into college or getting a good job —that we fail to enjoy the present. You should enjoy life’s simple pleasures, such as reading a good book, listening to your favourite music, or spending time with close friends. People who have several close friends often live happier and healthier lives.
Another secret to living a happy life is to be active, and have hobbies where you forget your problems and time. Many people experience this when dancing, or playing a sport, such as swimming. You can forget about your problems, and only think about the activity.
Finally, many people find happiness in helping others. Studies show that people feel good when they spend their time helping others. If you want to feel happier, do good things for someone.You can help a friend with his or her studies, go shopping to buy food for an elderly person, or simply help out around the house by washing the dishes.
56. The best title for the passage is __________ .
A. Money Makes You Happy
B. The Secrets of Happiness
C. Help Other People to Be Happy
D. Good Friends Make You Happy
57. The second paragraph tells us that ___________ .
A. the more friends you have, the happier you will be
B. we shouldn’t think about our future
C. happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life
D. some people fail to live a happy life
58. The passage gives us ___________ pieces of advice on how to get happiness.
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four
59. The writer thinks that __________ .
A. everyone knows how to live a happier life
B. it ’s wrong to spend time on work
C. hobbies take up too much time
D. doing good things for someone can make you happier
60. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage ?
A. Reading a good book.
B. Travelling to a foreign country.
C. Playing a sport.
D. Spending time with close friends.
〔D〕
Saturday, March 20, 2019 Dear Mum and Dad,
The time has come: I’m graduating, and I thank you both for all your help during these 15 years.
I still remember when you used to say, 〝You can be whatever you want.〞I’m so glad you are my parents, especially when I hear kids say they don’t get on well with theirs. I’m glad that you support me when I decide to do anything. You always try to help, and that’s important to me.
Dad, I remember when you first took me to fish. I loved going even though I never caught anything. I also remember when you would get angry with me. I realize you were only trying to show me the right way. When I was crying, you would always be there to try to cheer me up. That’s what I call a good, loving, caring dad, and that ’s why I love you so much.
Mum, I enjoy going out with you and having our happy time every Friday night, and I hope that never changes. I love telling you everything. You always listen carefully and give me your opinions. You love to have fun, and Dad does, too. I’m glad we do a lot together.
Thank you for bringing me up.
Love always
Allison
61. Allison writes the letter to show ___________ to her parents.
A. wishes
B. support
C. help
D. thanks
62. In Allison’s opinion, other kids of her age may _________ their parents.
A. have problems with
B. get on well with
C. like to talk to
D. like to listen to
63. Father might get angry with her when Allison _________ .
A. didn ’t accept him
B. didn’t do things in the right way
C. didn ’t catch any fish
D. didn ’t agree with her parents
64. The underlined part 〝bringing me up 〞means ___________ in Chinese.
A. 扶我起来
B. 带我去玩
C. 送我上学
D. 把我养大
65. What makes Allison and her mother good friends?
A. Cheering up each other.
B. Listening to each other and having fun together every day.
C. Encouraging each other.
D. Going out together every Friday night.
【五】写作(共三节，总分值30 分)
第一节单词拼写(共5 小题，每题1 分，总分值5 分)
根据以下句子及所给单词的首字母写出所缺单词。

在填写答卷时，要求写出完整单词。

(每空限填一词)
66. The l___________boy is always late for school because he never gets up early.
67. Remember to w___________your hands before eating.
68. Telling the t___________is the right thing to do. Nobody likes a lie.
69. It’s a good habit to b___________your teeth at least twice a day.
70. Guangzhou Tower is about 610 metres h___________.
.
第二节完成句子(共5 小题，每题2 分，总分值10 分)
根据所给的汉语内容，用英语完成以下句子(每空限填一词)
71.他们多开心啊！
_______ ________ they are!
72. 这种自行车是在上海生产的。

This kind of bicycle ______ ________ in Shanghai.
73. 她是如此友善以致每个人都想和她交朋友。

She is ______ friendly _______ everyone wants to make friends with her.
74. 所有孩子有上学的权利。

All the children ______ _______ ______ ______ go to school.
75.请告诉我下一步做什么？
Please tell me ______ _______ ______next.
第三节书面表达(共1 题，总分值15 分)
你校学生会提出〝走路去上学〞的倡议。

请你就这一话题写一篇短文向学校英语报投稿
主要内容如下：
〔1〕走路有利于健康；
〔2〕与朋友结伴同行可增进相互了解，互相帮助；
〔3〕不需要父母接送，学会自理；
〔4〕道路上车辆减少，有助空气质量提升。

Walking to school is a wonderful way to exercise. _______________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 注意 1. 词数80 左右(文章开头已给出，不计入词数)；
2. 不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息，否那么不予评分。

试题答案解析
【一】听力略
【二】语言知识及运用(共两节，总分值20 分)
第一节单项选择(共10 小题；每题1 分，总分值10 分)
16. I really like_________guitar you bought me yesterday, Dad.
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. 不填
【分析】此题考查冠词的用法。

【答案】C
l7. He asked her_________the bag because it was too expensive.
A.not to buy
B. to buy not
C. not buying
D. not buy
【分析】此题考查非谓语动词。

【答案】A
18. The boy said that he couldn ’t work out the problem by_________.
A. him
B. his
C. he
D. himself
【分析】此题考查反身代词。

【答案】D
19. Do you know the man_________is talking to Alice ?
A. which
B. who
C. whom
D. whose
【分析】此题考查定语从句。

【答案】B
20. You_________be hungry after the long walk. Help yourself to some cakes.
A. can’t
B. should
C. need
D. must
【分析】此题考查情态动词。

【答案】D
21. Mr Li is an excellent teacher._________in our class loves him.
A. Anyone
B. No one
C. Everyone
D. Someone
【分析】此题考查不定代词。

【答案】C
22. —When is your summer vocation ?
—It begins_________July 15th and I don’t have to go to school unti l August 31th .
A.on
B. in
C. at
D. by
【分析】此题考查时间介词。

【答案】A
23. We have two days off a week. We_________at school from Monday to Friday every week.
A. will study
B. study
C. studied
D. are studying
【分析】此题考查一般现在时。

【答案】B
24. Some beautiful flowers_________to her daughter on her last birthday.
A. are given
B. are giving
C. were given
D. were giving
【分析】此题考查被动语态。

【答案】B
25. —Good luck and have a nice weekend.
—_________. Bye-bye.
B.The same as you B. You have it too
C. You are too.
D. The same to you. 【分析】此题考查情景交际。

【答案】D
第二节语法选择(共10 小题；每题1 分，总分值10 分)
Once, a rich and powerful king ordered his three daughters to his palace on his birthday. His first daughter gave him gold, and the second daughter___26___him silver. The king was very pleased___27___these gifts. 〝I have brought you salt,〞said the third daughter. 〝Salt! 〞the king shouted___28___. 〝How dare you treat me like that?___29___good is salt?〞And he drove his youngest daughter off from his kingdom.
But when the princess (公主) left, all the salt in the kingdom___30___. At first, the king complained___31___his food was tasteless, but then he became very ill from lack of salt. The king realized how foolish he had been___32___sent for his___33___daughter. When she returned to the kingdom, the salt also returned.
〝I’m so sorry,〞said the king. 〝Your gift of salt was more valuable___34___silver and gold, for you can not live___35___salt.〞From that day on, the king got to know something was more important than his riches.
26.A. bring B. brought C. take D. took
【分析】此题考查单词的辨析和对文章时态的把握。

【答案】B
27.A. at B. of C. with D. to
【分析】此题考查词组的用法。

【答案】C
28.A. angrily B. angry C. anger D. angrier
【分析】此题考查副词的用法。

【答案】A
29.A. Why B. How C. Where D. What
【分析】此题考查疑问代词的辨析。

【答案】D
30.A. disappeared B. disappear C. disappearing D. disappear
【分析】此题考查对文章时态的把握。

【答案】A
31.A. if B. that C. how D. what
【分析】此题考查宾语从句的引导词。

【答案】B
32.A. so B. but C. and D. that
【分析】此题考查连词。

【答案】C
33.A. three B. young C. younger D. youngest
【分析】此题考查形容词的最高级。

【答案】D
34.A. then B. as C. by D. than
【分析】此题考查形容词的比较级。

【答案】D
35.A. without B. by C. in D. with
【分析】此题考查介词的用法。

【答案】A
【三】完形填空(共10 小题；每题1 分，总分值10 分)
Jerry, 30 years old, owned a pizza restaurant. He lived in a flat about one mile north of the restaurant. He usually walked to and from work. When it was___36___, he took the bus.
Jerry loved gangster (匪徒) movies. When a new one came out, he would go to the ___37___and watch it three or four times.___38___it went to video, Jerry would buy one at once. Jerry had a home collection of over 1, 000 gangster videos. Old ones,___39___ones, coloured, black and white, English, Spanish, Japanese —he loved them all. He could tell you the name of the ___40___,the director, the stars, and the story.
Finally, Jerry decided that he would like to own a ___41___, just like the gangsters. ___42___he saved his money for a couple of years. Then he went to a gun store and bought a used
one for 300. The following Saturday morning, he went to the___43___to practise shooting. He was in the club for only ten minutes when he___44___dropped his gun. The gun went off, and the bullet (子弹) went into his right knee.
Jerry now___45___with a walking stick, just like some gangsters.
36.A. sunny B. raining C. cloudy D. wind
【分析】此题考查上下文的联系。

【答案】B
37.A. restaurant B. store C. school D. cinema
【分析】此题考查上下文的联系。

【答案】D
38.A. But B. So C. Then D. Or
【分析】此题考查上下文的联系。

【答案】C
39.A. new B. interesting C. boring D. important
【分析】此题考查上下文的联系。

【答案】A
40.A. picture B. book C. song D. movie
【分析】此题考查上下文的联系。

【答案】D
41.A. restaurant B. video C. gun D. cinema
【分析】此题考查上下文的联系。

【答案】C
42.A. However B. Because C. So D. Though
【分析】此题考查连词的用法。

【答案】C
43.A. video store B. cinema C. pizza restaurant D. gun club
【分析】此题考查上下文的联系。

【答案】D
44.A. carelessly B. carefully C. difficultly D. excitedly
【分析】此题考查单词的辨析。

【答案】A
45.A. runs B. climbs C. walks D. lies
【分析】此题考查单词的辨析。

【答案】C
【四】阅读理解(共20 小题；每题2 分，总分值40 分)
〔A〕
This is a talk by a London taxi driver.
〝I’ve been a taxi driver for nearly ten years. Most London taxi drivers have their own taxis.〞〝It’s a nice job most of the time. You meet a lot of people. I always work at night, because there is too much traffic during the day. I live twenty miles outside London and I go to work at 5: 30 in the afternoon. I usually go home between 2 and 3 in the morning.〞
〝Some very strange things happened late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house, she found that she had lost her key. So I waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in through the window.〞〝I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought I was a thief. Luckily the woman came downstairs. She must have gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog!〞
46. The driver always worked at night because it was easier to __________ .
A. drive
B. make money
C. climb in through the window
D. meet a lot of people
【分析】此题考查细节的理解能力。

【答案】A
47. The woman climbed in through the window because _________ .
A. she wanted to have a sleep
B. her husband didn ’t open the door for her
C. she didn’t want to pay the driver
D. she couldn ’t find her key
【分析】此题考查细节的理解能力。

【答案】D
48. The story happened __________ .
A. early in the morning
B. late at night
C. 20 miles outside London
D. near the police station
【分析】此题考查对细节的快速查找能力。

【答案】B
49. Which of the following is wrong?
A. The driver worked until 2 or 3 in the morning.
B. The police made a mistake.
C. The woman had no money to pay the driver.
D. The woman had forgotten about the driver and the dog.
【分析】此题考查对整体文章的理解能力。

【答案】C
50. The driver climbed in through the window to _________ .
A. get money from the woman
B. return the dog to the woman
C. see what was happening in the house
D. phone the police
【分析】此题考查细节的理解能力。

【答案】C
〔B〕
Doctor Seuss (苏斯博士) was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best loved and most success ful children ’s book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.
In 1954, Life magazine published a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children ’s books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.
In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old could be able to read it. It was a funny story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than
fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.
In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖). He was honored for the education and enjoyment his books provided for American children and their parents.
He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide. People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, 〝I do not write for children. I write for people.〞
51. Doctor Seuss learned from the magazine that ___________ .
A. some school children could not read
B. many children ’s books were interesting
C. children wanted to learn to read
D. a writer for children was wanted
【分析】此题考查对细节的快速查找能力。

【答案】A
52. People like his books because they __________ .
A. are cheap and easy to get
B. were written in different languages
C. are easy and interesting to read
D. were written with invented words
【分析】此题考查对细节的快速查找能力。

【答案】C
53. He wrote the book The Cat in the Hat at the age of ________ .
A. 50
B. 53
C. 56
D. 87
【分析】此题考查对细节的快速查找能力。

【答案】B
54. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage ?
A. Doctor Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham with over 230 words.
B. Doctor Seuss wrote books only for children in the United States.
C. The Cat in the Hat was written only for six-year-old children.
D. His books provided education and enjoyment for Americans.
【分析】此题考查对整体文章的理解能力。

【答案】D
55. From the text we know that Doctor Seuss _________ .
A. won a Pulitzer Prize soon after his death
B. sold millions of his books himself worldwide
C. changed American children ’s way of reading
D. wrote the largest number of books in the world
【分析】此题考查对整体文章的理解能力。

【答案】C
〔C〕
Most people want to be happy, but few know how to find happiness. Money and success alone do not bring lasting happiness. Aristotle, a Greek thinker, said, 〝Happiness depends upon ourselves.〞In other words, we make our own happiness. Here are a few suggestions to help you be happier.
The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. Too often, we spend so much time thinking about the future —for example, getting into college or getting a good job —that we fail to enjoy the prese nt. You should enjoy life’s simple pleasures, such as reading a good book, listening to your favourite music, or spending time with close friends. People who have several close friends often live happier and healthier lives.
Another secret to living a happy life is to be active, and have hobbies where you forget your problems and time. Many people experience this when dancing, or playing a sport, such as swimming. You can forget about your problems, and only think about the activity.
Finally, many people find happiness in helping others. Studies show that people feel good when they spend their time helping others. If you want to feel happier, do good things for someone.You can help a friend with his or her studies, go shopping to buy food for an elderly person, or simply help out around the house by washing the dishes.
56. The best title for the passage is __________ .
A. Money Makes You Happy
B. The Secrets of Happiness
C. Help Other People to Be Happy。